States whose spending on special education drops below the prior year’s level will still get hit with financial penalties, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week, but a tweak to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act will make the reduction in federal support temporary: Under maintenance of effort—or MOE, in wonky Washingtonspeak—states can’t cut their own [...]
Indiana schools face a loss of about $12.4 million to special education services if the automatic federal spending cuts kick in March 1.
Special education advocates urged state lawmakers Wednesday to adopt formal rules governing the use of seclusion and restraint in schools.
Federal guidance designed to increase opportunities for students with disabilities to participate in sports has touched off debate about whether the U.S. Department of Education overstepped.
If Indiana schools were to lose an estimated $114 million in funding at stake in the “fiscal cliff” debate, programs for some of the state’s most vulnerable student populations would feel a deeper impact.
An Indiana lawmaker says the state needs to address the use of seclusion and restraint in public schools, reports Indiana Public Broadcasting’s Brandon Smith. Sen. Randy Head, R-Logansport, told members of the autism study committee that last year teachers used duct tape to restrain a student with special needs. He says the medical community and [...]
Ohio limits the use of seclusion rooms in mental institutes and children’s residential facilities, but not in public schools, writes StateImpact Ohio‘s Molly Bloom and The Columbus Dispatch‘s Jennifer Smith Richards: Some teachers say that seclusion rooms are effective tools when used properly. No law governs seclusion rooms, and the Ohio Department of Education has provided little guidance [...]
The American Association for School Principals released a report Tuesday detailing how schools are bracing for the possibility of across the board federal spending cuts, writes Alyson Klein for Education Week: Of those surveyed, 69.4 percent are betting they’ll have to cut professional development, and 58.1 percent say they’d expect to cut enrichment, after-school, and [...]
Changes to Indiana’s teacher licensure rules are in the works, and the already-complex process has become particularly contentious.
When she was less than two years old, the Katters decided to teach their daughter sign language and enroll her in classes at the Indiana School for the Deaf (ISD) in Indianapolis. Neither of Margaret Katter’s parents is deaf, but her mom is a speech language pathologist and her aunt is an audiologist. “All along [...]
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